14% OF LAUSD SENIORS FLUNK EXIT TEST RESULTS MAY AFFECT DISTRICT LEADERSHIP TUSSLE.Byline: RACHEL URANGA Staff Writer NORTH HOLLYWOOD -- In the first year of mandatory testing, 14 percent of LAUSD's senior class failed the High School Exit Exam, compared with 9 percent statewide, fueling the debate over the district's future leadership. The latest figures were released Friday and reflect the results of math and English-language exams administered in May, the final testing date before 2006 commencements. Statewide, some 40,000 students did not pass the test in time to graduate with their classmates Classmates can refer to either:
``These are the students who have multiple opportunities to pass,'' said Esther Wong Esther Wong was born August 13, 1917 in Shanghai, China, and emigrated to the U.S. in 1949. She was a punk rock and New Wave music promoter. She got started as the owner of "Madame Wong's" clubs, and when Polynesian bands weren't filling her restaurants, she decided to try , a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. . ``This is a challenging group of students, but our district refuses to give up (on) these students.'' California Schools Superintendent Jack O'Connell
Jack T. O'Connell (born October 8, 1951) is a California politician. , who announced the state results at a news conference at North Hollywood High, said the state will be adding testing dates, including some Saturdays, throughout the year to provide more opportunities for students to pass. The scores come as Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa jockeys for greater control over LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) , which is struggling to bring up student test scores and lower its dropout (1) On magnetic media, a bit that has lost its strength due to a surface defect or recording malfunction. If the bit is in an audio or video file, it might be detected by the error correction circuitry and either corrected or not, but if not, it is often not noticed by the human rate. And while local figures were unavailable, statewide results show that poor students and English-language learners continue to lag behind their classmates. Still, O'Connell maintained that the controversial test will help LAUSD and other districts laser in on problem areas. ``I credit the High School Exit Exam with bringing more focus, more attention and more sunshine to the work that still needs to be done,'' he said. But for some of the students attending summer school Friday at North Hollywood High, the goal of getting a diploma seems unattainable. ``It's so frustrating for me, it seems impossible,'' said Celia Benegas, a 21-year-old Honduran immigrant who has taken the CAHSEE CAHSEE California High School Exit Exam CAHSEE Center for the Advancement of Hispanics in Science and Engineering Education six times and was studying to take it again next week. ``We come here and we don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. English and the English we do know is so different,'' she said. Students in the Class of 2006 were the first who must pass the exit exam, administered to 10th-, 11th- and 12th-graders. Students can take the test a total of seven times, once their sophomore year and three times each in their junior and senior years. If they don't pass by June, they must attend summer school, with another opportunity to pass the test after that. If they don't pass the test after summer school, they must attend adult school and take the test until they pass. The state has poured about $70 million into boot camps and other after- school programs intended to boost test scores. Still, about 5 percent of all the state's students did not graduate this year because they failed the test. rachel.uranga(at)dailynews.com (818) 713-3741 |
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